Sorry, replying to the reply -- seem to have lost the original mail
Yard, John wrote:
When using gedit, I have users who cannot edit a file owned by
another user, even if the linux permissions
allow them ( say even 777 ).
What is the circumvention of this problem ?
Are you sure that they can't _edit_ that file? It's possible they can
edit it (try with another program), but they can't remove it. If that's
the case, I would think the parent directory has the sticky bit set. (Is
the file in question in /tmp?) Here's the relevant portion from "man chmod":
==
The name of the `sticky bit' derives from the original meaning:
keep program text on swap device. These days, when set for a directory,
it means that only the owner of the file and the owner of that
directory may remove the file from that directory. (This is commonly
used on directories like /tmp that have general write permission.)
==
jack
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Jack Challen
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